Author:

• Rodrigo Caldeira Nunes de Oliveira - Oliveira, Rodrigo Caldeira Nunes de - Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FOP-Unicamp) – Piracicaba, SP. - <apereira@fop.unicamp.br> +

Co-author(s):

• JOÃO GABRIEL SILVA SOUZA - SOUZA,JOÃO GABRIEL SILVA - Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FOP-Unicamp) – Piracicaba, SP. - <apereira@fop.unicamp.br>
• CAROLINA DE CASTRO OLIVEIRA - OLIVEIRA, CAROLINA DE CASTRO - Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FOP-Unicamp) – Piracicaba, SP - <apereira@fop.unicamp.br>
• LORENNA FONSECA BRAGA DE OLIVEIRA - OLIVEIRA,LORENNA FONSECA BRAGA DE - Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FOP-Unicamp) – Piracicaba, SP. - <apereira@fop.unicamp.br>
• JOSÉ EDUARDO PELIZON PELINO - PELINO,JOSÉ EDUARDO PELIZON - Departamento de Odontologia da Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros e Faculdades Unidas do Norte de Minas – Montes Claros, MG. - <apereira@fop.unicamp.br>
• ANDRÉA MARIA ELEUTÉRIO DE BARROS LIMA MARTINS - MARTINS,ANDRÉA MARIA ELEUTÉRIO DE BARROS LIMA - Departamento de Odontologia da Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros e Faculdades Unidas do Norte de Minas – Montes Claros, MG. - <apereira@fop.unicamp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1205-9910
• ELIETE RODRIGUES DE ALMEIDA - apereira@fop.unicamp.br - Departamento de Odontologia da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul - <ALMEIDA,ELIETE RODRIGUES DE >

Thematic Area:

Saúde Bucal

Abstract:

It is proposed to identify the prevalence of access to information about how to prevent oral problems among school children in public schools, as well as the factors associated with this access. This is a cross-sectional study, conducted between analytical school 12 years olda small town and municipality population large. The examinations were performed by 24 dentists trained and calibrated with the aid of 24 annotators. Data collection occurred in 36 public schools drawn89 public schools of the city. Descriptive analyses were conducted and multiple (OR/IC95%). The school included 2510, 2211 (88.1%) reported having received information about how to prevent oral problems. Access to such information was greater among those who used private dental services; and lowest among those who used the service for treatment, which evaluated the service as regular or bad and terrible, that use as a means of oral hygiene tooth brush only or tooth brush and makes the language and who reported not being satisfied with the appearance of their teeth. It is concluded that the majority of schoolchildren had access to information about how to prevent oral problems, being the access associated with the characteristics of health services, health outcomes and behaviors.

Keywords:

Keywords:

School Health; Child;Oral health;Health literacy.

Content:

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